Google has announced that it was \u201cyears closer\u201d to deliver internet to remote parts of the world using high-flying balloons.<\/p>\n
Researchers at Google\u2019s Project Loon\u2014part of the company\u2019s X research lab\u2014said it was now able to use machine learning to predict weather systems, meaning the firm has a greater control over where its balloons go, making it possible to focus on a specific region, rather than circumnavigating the globe, BBC reported on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can now run an experiment and try to give service in a particular place in the world with ten, twenty or thirty balloons,\u201d Astro Teller, head of Alphabet\u2019s X unit (formerly Google X), was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cReal users\u201d will be able to use the system in the \u201ccoming months\u201d, he added\u2014but he did not specify where the initial roll out would take place.<\/p>\n
Under the project, the firm will suspend a network of huge, tennis-court sized balloons that will beam down connectivity.<\/p>\n
The balloons float in the stratosphere around 11 miles high. By raising or lowering altitude, the balloons can be caught in different weather streams, changing direction, the report said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy using machine-learning algorithms, Google might have cracked a way to predict weather with enough accuracy to make it possible to hover balloons over a relatively small area for a long period of time,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
Teller said that Project Loon was one of the more \u201cmature\u201d moonshot ideas at the company and Google was in \u201cno rush\u201d to make Project Loon a stand-alone business.<\/p>\n
Last year, Teller said the connection had advanced to deliver about 15mbps internet access.<\/p>\n
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